Siemens launches its new AI-powered assistant for industrial engineering
Join the Expert Committee for the 2024 3D Printing Industry Awards to help select the winners! Industrial manufacturing firm Siemens has unv…
Optimizing 3D printing performance with Bondtech’s Core Heating Technology
Core Heating Technology (CHT) from Bondtech, the Swedish manufacturer of world-leading filament feeders, increases 3D printing speeds by over 30%. CHT…
Materialise adds novel AM materials to its portfolio
Belgian 3D printing company Materialise has introduced three new materials to its AM portfolio. These materials include Polyamide 12S (PA 12S), Polyamide 11 (PA 11) for Multi Jet Fusion, and Carbon Fi…
3D Reprint Your Plastic Waste
Wouldn’t it be nice if, instead of piling all of your junk into a couple of bins for the waste management people to take away, you could separate your plastics, paper, metal, compost, etc. and p…
Jenny Lawton On MakerBot Past, Present & Future
Top of my personal highlights at the TCT Show last week was getting to hear Jenny Lawton speak. As I mentioned in my review of the show, I had met her previously — and briefly — when she was President…
3D Systems Wants to Make 3D Printing more Relatable with the Printlosophy of Joe
The Printlosophy of Joe is a new blog series from 3D Systems that intends to provide factual answers and perspectives about the realities of 3D printing to new adopters or interested parties. 3D print…
Correcting Congenital Heart Defects with 3D Printing Is Becoming the Norm
A 40 year old woman in Singapore living with a congenital heart defect will have her heart 3D printed to aid her doctors with finding a safer and faster way to finally correct it. The heart model will…
Maker Faire Rome Opens New Era for Making & Consumer Oriented 3D Printing
I think the most significant moment for me, during the Maker Faire Rome, the first I ever visited, took place while I was on my way out, after two days of sheer craziness, cruising through hundreds of…
3DPI.TV – YouMagine Opens Up Open Source Dialogue
After MakerBot changed the Terms of Service for its popular 3D printables site, Thingiverse, there was an uproar in the 3D printing community about the ownership rights relating to 3D models. The chan…
Award Winning Mcor Upgrades Full Colour Printing & Swells the Senior Ranks
Keeping up with all that has happened for high growth 3D paper printing prodigy Mcor Technologies in the past year has been difficult ― a sign of just how sweet the period has been for the company. Wi…
Spanish Toy Maker Imaginarium is Making Maker Toys
Imaginarium is a Spanish toy store chain with a presence in 28 countries with 348 stores and it is one of the first large toy companies to seriously add 3D printing to its toy offer. The company has a…
Satirizing 3D Printing in “Evil 3D Printer: Doctors with Borders” from Mondo Media
HOW TO 3D PRINT YOURSELF A SENSE OF HUMOR Here’s an article about satire I’ve been 3D printing out of my mind for the last 5 hours!! Ok…it’s done! Hmm. How should I market it? Think!! Ok, I think I k…
Most Read Articles from Last Week – October 5
Arduino and Sharebot Are Launching a New 3D Printer Together The Italian 3D printing website, 3discover.it, has just broken the news that the two most important Italian companies from the world of mak…
Fujikon 3D Prints its Way into the Future of Headphone Design
3D printing is increasingly being used for quick iterative design, giving designers and engineers the power to think up new ideas and see them manufactured on demand. Hong Kong-based manufacturer of …
Engineer Builds his Own SLS 3D Printer
When an aerospace engineer decided that he wanted his own SLS 3D printer he found everything available on the market well beyond his reach financially, so he just decided to build one himself. Brandon…